Jack, not sure if I missed the humor in your post or not. I have been on
and off the list for about 2 years now. Everything seems fine to me. I
have most of the reference material you listed, but often find the advice
from the list much better.
Yes, the same topics come and go. New enthusiasts are born everyday and
people with short memories like me need to be reminded of things sometimes.
People should feel free to post whatever questions they have. If I want
someone to impinge on my freedom I can always turn to the government.
when the list overwhelms me I sign off for awhile or do mass deletes.
Put your top down and take a ride in your car, it helps everything.
Cheers ;)
-----Original Message-----
From: Feldman, Jack (Jack) <jack@lucent.com>
To: 'mgs@autox.team.net' <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, April 08, 1999 8:25 AM
Subject: RE: Original Equipment Radios NOW Requirement to Post to List
|Our server was off line for four days because of the virus. What a relief
|from email. Unfortunately they saved it up and dumped four days worth in
one
|day. I deleted a number of digests, but the ones that were left took up 148
|pages to print. Thanks to a utility called 4print I can put 4 pages on one
|sheet of paper.
|
|Now to the complaint. I suggest that no one post to the list unless they
|have the following:
| Users Manual
| Owners Manual (One Bentley contains both)
| Moss and VB catalog (VB is great for cross referencing C parts)
| A J. C. Whitney catalog
| Whatever other catalogs you can get
| Membership in a national club for their technical advice and
|advertisements
| Have looked through the archive
| A good sense of humor.
|
|I have seen many questions raised in the list that are answered in one of
|the above. We could have reduced those 148 pages down to a dozen. No
wonder
|cars fail when folks try to work on them without the proper information.
|
|Now for the radio stuff. Its deja vue all over again. This comes up
|regularly.
|
|I too want a Radiomobile. I am a Ham and like to listen to short-wave. It
|doesn't bother me that there is no FM. I picked up an old RS FM adapter for
|a $1.00 at a hamfest. It works great with my original BMC radio. I have a
|pile of posts I want to respond to, and I'll be visiting the Australian web
|site that might have them. Probably too expensive as new. I hope to get to
|England in the next few years (my wife want to walk Hadrian's wall), and
see
|if I can get a used one. There are two shops in the US that will fix old
OEM
|radios, one in PA, but I've lost the phone number. Try Hemmings (you do
|know abut Hemmings, don't you?) to see if they advertise. One did offer me
|one that came from a Rolls for $600!
|
|Cars were not shipped with radios and the radios that were installed here
by
|the dealers usually were Motorola, Automatic Electric, and Bendix. Motorola
|and AE were big aftermarket suppliers at the time, and if you look inside
|your radio you will probably find the "M" batlike logo on some of the
parts.
|One my radio there is a transistor on the outside with the logo.
|
|Anyone who has been reading the Whitney catalog regularly (and I have been
|doing so as far back as when they were Warshawsky), knows that there is a
|device that allows older radios to be installed in new cars. It adapts 6V
|and/or negative ground radios to positive ground cars. The only problem is
|that they seem to appear and disappear from the catalog. The older one I
|looked in didn't have it, but I'll bet if you call Whitney at 312 431-6102
|and ask about one, they might have it. Get a catalog at the same time.
|
|Sorry to be so wordy, but I'm replaying to a pet peeve and pages of
|messages.
|
|Jack
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